Shoebill

THE SHOEBILL

Shoebill is one of the most unique creatures that I attracted the most because  of its physical  ,lifespan and behavior. Shoebill are also known as Balaeniceps rex and its population mainly can be found in Southern Sudan(mainly in the White NILE Sudd ),the wetlands of northern Uganda and Western Tanzania and the Bangweulu swamp of northeastern Zambia. In my opinion it’s such a beautiful experience if we could see this bird in front of our eyes and had an experience to touch these birds closely.

As I said before I do really attracted by its physical things because of it such a large bird different than others ordinary bird.it is also somewhat frightful looking birds, Shoebill  storks stand 110 to 140 cm tall. According to what I have found shoebill males are larger than female and have longer bills. The plumage is slaty blue gray overall with a darker grey head. We can differentiate the adult and the newly bird by the colors. A newly hatched shoebill stork is covered in silvery-grey silky down and juveniles are slightly darker shade of grey than adults. Shoebills physical can be vividly describe by the roughly looking at these bird by our owns eyes but still I'm still interested to tell the readers about Shoebill physical so that reader could imagine about shoebill speciality. I would like to highlight that shoebill mandibles have sharp edges that aid in capturing its prey and also shoebill eyes are large and yellowish or grayish-white in color. Shoebill has a long and blackish leg and also toes are ridiculously long and divided with no webbing between them.

        For shoebill behavior, they are rarely found in group and only when it comes to food they will stay in small group for temporary period of time. As what I has read shoebills are non-migratory as long as good foraging conditions exist. In addition, they will make seasonal movements between nesting and feeding zones. For their key behaviors, they are terricolous, flies, diurnal, sedentary, solitary and territorial. For the lifespan they can live for almost 36 years in the wild. For me it was so significant creature because they can stay live longer than others animals, yet the they can survive even though not in a bigger group,